• Peter Berg Takes Over 'Deepwater Horizon' From J.C. Chandor

    J.C. Chandor, who raced from Margin Call to All Is Lost to A Most Violent Year, has left the director's chair of the upcoming film Deepwater Horizon. The reason? Our old friend "creative differences," at least as far as the official knowledge base goes. Now, coming in to replace him, is Peter Berg, whose most…

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  • 'All Is Lost' Director J.C. Chandor To Make Vince Lombardi Biopic

    The National Football League is known for a slew of iconic names, but only one has his name on the championship trophy. When a team wins the Super Bowl, they received the Vince Lombardi Trophy, named after the legendary and innovative coach of the Green Bay Packers. Lombardi coached the Packers from 1959-1967, a run…

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  • Oscar Contenders 'All Is Lost' And 'The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty' Get Posters

    Along with dropping temperatures and changing leaves, one hallmark of the summer-to-fall transition is the gradual replacement of action-movie tentpoles with awards season hopefuls at the multiplex. With Labor Day weekend just around the corner, the first posters have dropped for two Oscar contenders coming to theaters in the cooler months. The first poster, for…

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  • 'All Is Lost' Trailer: Robert Redford Alone Against The Elements

    We don't see a lot of actors doing solo pieces on film. It takes guts to be the only person projected on a screen for 90 minutes. But in All Is Lost, Robert Redford plays a sailor whose boat collides with an abandoned shipping container, wounding his ship and setting him up for a very…

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  • 'Margin Call' Trailer

    One of the top 10 screenplays listed on The Black List this year was a script by JC Chandor titled Margin Call. While I often refer to The Black List as a annual list of the best unproduced screenplays in Hollywood, that isn't actually the case -- the list is compiled with a poll of…

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  • 'Margin Call' Picked Up By LionsGate And Roadside Attractions

    At the end of this first weekend of the 2011 Sundance Film Festival there have been two major buys. One was made by Paramount for Like Crazy, one of the most-praised films at the fest so far. (Look for our review tomorrow morning.) And on the other side of the spectrum, LionsGate and Roadside Attractions…

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  • Sundance 2011 First Look: 'Margin Call'

    One of the top 10 screenplays listed on The Black List this year was a script by JC Chandor titled Margin Call. While I often refer to The Black List as a annual list of the best unproduced screenplays in Hollywood, that isn't actually the case -- the list is compiled with a poll of…

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  • 2010 The Black List: The Year's Best Unproduced Screenplays

    The Black List has been released. The annual list is compiled with a poll of 300 (up from last year's 250) development executives and high-level assistants, and contains a ranking of the hot screenplays making the rounds in Hollywoodland, which were written in, or are somehow uniquely associated with, 2010 and will not be released…

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  • Jeremy Irons Joins The Cast Of Margin Call

    The financial drama Margin Call, which started shooting a couple of weeks ago in New York City, has assembled quite the all-star cast. The latest addition to writer/director J.C. Chandor's picture is Jeremy Irons. What started off sounding like a so-so film that is being made quickly to jump in on the very topical financial…

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